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...will cost us $388 billion and when it comes to energy we are one of the last in the country in having a reliable electricitygrid, that's a proposition that could be several billion dollars "The bottom line is this," Martinez Fischer said...

...Modesto areas, lasted about 20 minutes. The Independent System Operator - which manages 80 percent of the state's electricitygrid - earlier had declared a Stage 3 alert through Monday, an unprecedented action on weekends when demand usually eases...

...top electricity traders, had maintained that federal regulators had not given power marketers the same access to electricitygrids as held by traditional, state-regulated utilities. The states in presentations before the court Oct. 3, before...

...transmission and regulatory policy related to energy and electricity, it is tempting to think about tomorrow's electricitygrid based on the viability of today's resources. That would be a costly mistake. Just as the splitting of the atom...

...a Senate panel Tuesday. But the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the organization that runs the state's electricitygrid, needs to communicate better with government officials and the public to prevent problems when rolling blackouts...

...Internet in a half-hour. Given more time and money, they boasted, they could interrupt satellite transmissions or electricitygrids and snoop on the president's movements. While Internet security experts said such claims might be hyperbole...

...cooler weather arrived, ending the threat. Jim Sinclair, a spokesman for the agency that manages New England's electricitygrid, said, "There will be days this summer when we need to dip into the reserve tanks" for electricity, but reserve...

...giving the federal government new authority over locating high-voltage lines. But the administration said the electricitygrid improvements should be part of a broader energy policy that also would open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil development...

...need to shore up Social Security and Medicare and to rebuild our roads, bridges, dams, and, as we now know, our electricitygrid. Where will the money come from to address these problems? It is time to pull our heads out of the sand and face...